AndSMB (samba client)

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About this app

AndSMB is a SMB (Samba/CIFS) client for Android devices. It allows connecting to shared folders hosted on Windows or Samba servers over Wifi/3G/4G. It allows managing several connections with authentication. It comes with both a device file browser and a SMB file browser. It provides download and upload support for files and folders. It can synchronize folders. You can rename, delete, get file details, create folders open local and remote files. It comes with share feature for gallery. WINS server, LMHOSTS and broadcast address options are available for name resolution. Browse and transfer intents are available for third party applications. Root access is not needed.

Ratings and reviews

A nice, clean, get-the-job done app that gets a lot right but is just crying for a little developer love. Obvious needs include better network error handling, support for multiple shares on the same server, cleaner behavior when accepting a share from other apps, timestamp preservation on copy, IPv6. Running in background would be great, too; that's not a deal breaker for me, but is for many folks.

Finally I found a fricking app that connects to my Windows desktop which I have a share setup to my MP3 folder, so I can copy albums to my phone so I can listen in the car. ES File Explorer needs a premium version and CX File Explorer didn't work at all. Good simple app but I think the file explore (folders) screen isn't very good (like have it remember your scroll position when you go into a folder and then come out again). If you upgrade that control it would be 5 stars.

Used to be great, but at some point it stopped working, and now when trying to connect to SMB shares it gives permission denied errors even though on all other devices the SMB shares work fine with the same creds. I'm guessing there's something about SMB version 2 or 3 that the app isn't properly handling, because my shares work fine on linux/windows with multiple other applications.

What's new

Android 14 requirements support added.